Category Archives: DialogueSemester

Vancouver Food Policy Council Forum

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending the Vancouver Food Policy Council’s Forum, which was a nice immersion into the larger world of what’s happening now that my class has ended. It seems like almost half of all our dialogue semester’s guests for the term were at the event (and half of those are now [...]

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Learning on Multiculturalism

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester, Ideas

Just when I thought my degree and university career wasn’t quite mixed-up and diverse enough, I decided to pick a topic for my personal project on multiculturalism. That sound you don’t hear is the squeaking open of the top on a ginormous can of worms! Our class got an extension on our individual projects. It [...]

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Spirituality and Sustainability

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester, Ideas

A woman in my class asked everyone back in the first week if we would be willing to invite a guest speaker, a friend of hers, to our class to discuss sustainability  and spirituality. We agreed, and he came to speak with us during lunch on Friday. (I’ll try to keep my Livejournal voice succinct.) [...]

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Transit and Growth – Ecodensity and Transportation

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester, Unconferences

Richard and I went to the EcoDensity panel discussion on transporation at SFU Harbour Centre, and I stuck around afterwards to hang out with some transit geeks a friend in Toronto introduced me to over e-mail. I must say, I was quite dazzled – I got to overhear some amazing conversations on transit I have [...]

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Why I believe (want to believe) in Sustainability

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester

I’m doing some research to work on my group’s project for my class (which, admittedly, I have not been blogging about very much lately because I’m going to concerts and watching Battlestar Galactica), and I stumbled upon this paragraph in one of my readings which very succinctly sums up my personal feelings on why I [...]

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Action on Urban Food Sustainability starts with a course outline

by Karen Quinn Fung | posted in DialogueSemester, Flotsam and Jetsam

The recent blog-silence is attributable to mainly two things: firstly, moving back to Vancouver. The past two weeks have been a flurry of stuff-selling, packing, logistics-shepherding, goodbye dinners, throwing stuff away (and being quite sheepish about how attached I unwittingly became to the stupidest things), work-report writing, address-changing, throwing more stuff away, unpacking, and getting [...]

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